10 Key Steve Jobs Moments and Innovations

Under the leadership of Steve Jobs, Apple became a technology leader and cultural force. Take a look back at some favorite Jobs moments and ideas.

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Apple's story in New York City, with its clean and uncluttered look and sales personnel who were eager to show people how to use Apple products, re-imagined the way tech products can be sold to consumers. Apple stores boast one of the highest revenue-per-square-foot rates in the entire retail industry and many other companies have since copied Apple's ideas.

Truly are marketing and design genius...as far as innovation goes, anything Apple brought to the table of consumer electronics was there before or invented somewhere else. This is not meant to dismiss the effort Apple put into all this, but they did not have all the ideas.

Just because the server market's in the doldrums doesn't mean innovation has ceased. Far from it -- server technology is enjoying the biggest renaissance since the dawn of x86 systems. But the primary driver is now service providers, not enterprises.